The Journal of organic chemistry

A general and efficient route to thionoesters via thionoacyl nitrobenzotriazoles

MA Shalaby, H Rapoport

Index: Shalaby, M. Ashraf; Rapoport, Henry Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 64, # 3 p. 1065 - 1070

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Abstract

Thionoesters (thiocarboxylic-O-esters), a class of sulfurcontaining compounds of general structure RC (S)-OR′, have been a focus of interest due to their altered reactivity relative to their oxygen analogues. 1, 2 For example, thionoesters can be readily desulfurized with Raney nickel to form the corresponding ethers. 3 This pathway to convert esters to ethers avoids many of the steric and functional limitations of other methods4 for ether formation ...